About:Photo Competitions/Best of 2012

The Theme: Best of 2012

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With the end of the year approaching, we're throwing an all-in photo competition. There is no set theme. Instead, just share your best photos taken in 2012.

Submit up to three of your best photos for a chance to win one of these excellent prizes.

Judge's Prize:

A cool photo collage from ixxi. Using your own photos, ixxi will provide a 160x120 cm (48 cards) collage valued at €86,95. See here for more info on the innovative system.

A copy of Lonely Planet's Guide to Travel Photography signed by the author, Richard I'Anson.

And $500 in cash!

People's Choice Prize:

A cool 160x120 cm (48 cards) photo collage from ixxi valued at €86,95.

And $250 in cash!

Nominate photos before November 23.

Terms

Anyone can enter. Travellerspoint staff are not allowed to win.

For every photo you enter, you must:

• have a high resolution version (4 megapixels or higher)
• own the copyright
• have been taken this year

You are allowed to enter photos you uploaded to Travellerspoint before, even if they haven't been featured. The moderators will take another look at any photo tagged for the competition.

By entering your photo, you're also giving Travellerspoint a non-transferable, non-revocable right to use it to promote Travellerspoint. You will still own the copyright, and full credit will be given to you for the photo.

Nomination

You can nominate up to three photos. Only those featured by our photo moderators will be selected. If you'd like to nominate a photo that you uploaded to Travellerspoint previously, but that wasn't featured, you can still nominate it. The moderators will take another look at any photo tagged for the competition. Be sure to select a location for your photo, as this is necessary for it to be featured.

If you're nominating a new photo:

• Go to your photo upload page and upload your photos as per usual.
• Under Tags, add these tags: bestof2012 and comp34.
• If you have tagged your photo correctly, it will appear on this page.

If you want to nominate a photo that you have already uploaded to Travellerspoint:

• Go to your private photo gallery.
• Tick the "select" box under the photos you want to nominate. Once you've selected all the photos you'd like to nominate, click "Edit Selected" at the bottom of the page.
• Under Tags, add these tags: bestof2012 and comp34.
• If you have tagged your photo correctly, it will appear on this page.

Featured nominated photos will appear on this page.

Voting

Entrants will be in the running for both a People's Choice Prize decided by popular vote and a new prestigious Judge's Prize, presided over by our esteemed panel: Lonely Planet photographer and author Richard I'Anson; travel writers and photographers Terence Carter and Lara Dunston from Grantourismo; Corbis photographer and Art in All of Us founder Anthony Asael; and Roel Vaessen of ixxi!

Voting for the People's Choice Prize opens on 26 November and closes on 10 December.

The winners will be announced in the December newsletter, as well as on the Travellerspoint blog.